Bibliograph

Mad, bad, dangerous to know, the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, Colm Toibin

Type

Label

Mad, bad, dangerous to know, the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce, Colm Toibin

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

portraits

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Mad, bad, dangerous to know

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Colm Toibin

Sub title

the fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce

Summary

William Butler Yeats' father was an impoverished artist, an inveterate letter writer, and a man crippled by his inability to ever finish a painting. Oscar Wilde's father was a doctor, a brilliant statistician and amateur archaeologist who was taken to court by an obsessed lover in a strange foreshadowing of events that would later befall his son. The father of James Joyce was a garrulous, hard-drinking man with a violent temper, unable or unwilling to provide for his large family, who eventually drove his son from Ireland. Here, Colm Tóibín presents an illuminating, intimate study of Irish culture, history and literature told through the lives and works of Ireland's most famous sons, and the complicated, influential relationships they each maintained with their fathers

Target audience

adult

Creator